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| Arthur “Art” John (1911 – 2014) > | Arthur “Art” John (1911 – 2014) |
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| Art John was born in Livingstone, a gold rush town located 96 km northeast of Whitehorse.((Jane Gaffin, “An Award Winning Prospector, Art John was a Mentor to Many.” Yukon Prospector’s Association, 2018 website: https://yukonprospectors.ca/arthur_john.pdf)) His mother was Mary John and his father was Bob Hobin who joined the Canadian Army for service in the First World War. Hobin never returned from the war and Art John was raised by his step-father Long-Haired John. His mother died in a dog team accident when he was a young boy and his grandmother helped to raise him.((Pat Moore, editor, //Kaska Narratives.// Kaska Tribal Council, 1999: 395.)) An influenza epidemic swept through the area and John was orphaned about age ten and he went to live in Ross River with his grandmother. He spent years trapping and hunting around Ross River and helped the American Army survey the Canol Road in the 1940s.((Jane Gaffin, “An Award Winning Prospector, Art John was a Mentor to Many.” Yukon Prospector’s Association, 2018 website: https://yukonprospectors.ca/arthur_john.pdf)) | Art John was born in Livingstone, a gold rush town located 96 km northeast of Whitehorse.((Jane Gaffin, “An Award Winning Prospector, Art John was a Mentor to Many.” Yukon Prospector’s Association, 2018 website: https://yukonprospectors.ca/arthur_john.pdf)) His mother was Mary John and his father was Bob Hobin who joined the Canadian Army for service in the First World War. Hobin never returned from the war and Art John was raised by his step-father Long-Haired John. His mother died in a dog team accident when he was a young boy and his grandmother helped to raise him.((Pat Moore, editor, //Kaska Narratives.// Kaska Tribal Council, 1999: 395.)) An influenza epidemic swept through the area and John was orphaned about age ten and he went to live in Ross River with his grandmother. He spent years trapping and hunting around Ross River and helped the American Army survey the Canol Road in the 1940s.((Jane Gaffin, “An Award Winning Prospector, Art John was a Mentor to Many.” Yukon Prospector’s Association, 2018 website: https://yukonprospectors.ca/arthur_john.pdf)) |
